Legal Updates Written by Bernie James
2025
SROs vs. "Outside Officers": School Safety & Fourth Amendment Searches
2024
Behavioral Science in Education: Threat Assessments, Student Rights, and School Safety Part II
Behavioral Science in Education: Threat Assessments, Student Rights, and School Safety
Legal Update: A Message From the Courts: Top Cases of 2023
2023
Off-Campus Student Speech Cases: A Post-Mahanoy Update - Fall 2023
School Safety Law Blog: News & Information for School Safety - Summer 2023
2022
Unsafe Schools and Liability - Spring 2022
The Duty to Protect Students: Changes in the Underlying Law & School Liability - Fall 2022
2021
The First Amendment, Off Campus Speech, & School Safety
Qualified Immunity in Public Education
School Safety for Educators: Lessons Learned From COVID-19
2020
Free Speech: The First Amendment on Campuses in 2020
Message from the Courts: Top 2019 Cases
Restorative Justice Liability: Affirmative Duties and School Safety
2019
Student Speech and School Discipline: The Tipping Point
The SRO, Student Rights, and Excessive Force
Restorative Justice Liability: Affirmative Duties and School Safety
2018
School Safety and the Courts: Essential Cases for 2018
School Safety Legislative Reform 2018
The Evolving Fourth Amendment and Student Rights: Lessons From the 2018 Cases
School-Based Law Enforcement and "Bystander Liability"
2017
School Safety and the Courts: Top Cases of 2017
School Discipline Reform & Restorative Justice: A Policy Analysis
School Safety Legislative Reform Going Into 2017
The Educator-SRO Relationship: When is the Educator an Agent of Law Enforcement?
2016
Government Liability & The "Failure to Train" the School Resource Officer
School Safety Legal Reform: Top 10 Cases of 2016
School Safety Legislative Reform: 7 Top Concerns of Policymakers
The Discretion of Educators & Disciplinary Reform: Courts vs. the Reformers
2015
Arming School Personnel: School Safety Reform & Liability
Body Worn Cameras: Student Privacy Rights and Video Surveillance
Excessive Force & SRO Liability
Message from the Courts: Legal Update on 2014-2015 Top Cases
2014
Legal Update: Riley v. California - Guidance on School Safety, Cell Phones and Student Privacy
The Courts and Safe Schools Reform: Emerging Guidance on Student Rights
The Leading Student Speech Standard: Reasonable Forecast of Substantial Disruption
When Liability Strikes: The Rule of Law & Student Rights
2013
Policy Reform After Newtown: The SRO and the Student's Right to a Safe Campus
Safe School Policies, Liability and the School Resource Officer
School Safety Legal Reform: The Year 2013
2012
Selective Enforcement: Lessons Learned from Discrimination Cases
State v. Meneese: Warrants, SROs, and the MOU
Suspicionless Student Searches: When, Why, and How?
The Truth: Behind the School-to-Prison Pipeline Dispute
2011
Applying the "Safford" Rule in Strip Searches
Gangs: Take a Fresh Look at Your Campus Policies
School Liability & Excessive Force
The Supreme Court, Police Interrogations, & Student Rights
2010
Informants, Tips, & Reasonable Suspicion
SROs, Safe Schools, and the Interagency Agreement
Video Surveillance: The Right to Privacy & Safe Schools
What's the Law on Misconduct & Bullying?
2009
2009 Laws That Affect Safe Schools & Student Rights
Cell Phones & The Fourth Amendment
Special Education Students and Their Safety
The Safe Schools Movement & SRO Liability
2008
School Safety Current Legal Reform
SROS & Campus Codes of Conduct
2007